Volume 3 of Cahiers Baudelaire was published by Dupuis on January 29 in the Aire Libre collection. This third volume is the last of Bernard Yslaire's superb Cahiers Baudelaire .
A splendid work
Like the previous ones, the third volume of the Cahiers Baudelaire is limited to a print run of 2,500 copies. A magnificent object of 80 pages, it contains the last sketches of the album Mademoiselle Baudelaire, dedicated to Charles Baudelaire, which Bernard Yslaire plans to publish this year, for the bicentenary of the poet's birth. Bernard Yslaire's sketches are mesmerizing, precise, expressive, divided between realism and dreaminess. They are also particularly instructive for all those who are curious about the creative process of the author, which shows a fascinating stage of work of his work.
The last moments of a tortured soul
This last volume of the Cahiers Baudelaire recounts the last period of the poet's life through epistolary exchanges between Jeanne, his beloved and hated muse, and Charles Baudelaire's mother. Enhanced by Bernard Yslaire's talent as a draftsman and narrator, the work allows us to learn more about all the problems Charles Baudelaire faced. Within the office of his notary and through his flight from the bailiffs, the reader shares his financial difficulties. He accompanies the poet in illness, and finally in death. This third volume also allows to develop relations with his friends, in particular Gustave Courbet and Gérard de Nerval and to recall the legal proceedings he was subjected to following the publication of Les Fleurs du mal.
Cahiers Baudelaire : a flight of emotions
In his Cahiers Baudelaire, Bernard Yslaire highlights the emotions that animate the poet, whether in his relationships with others, in his writing process or through his admiration for Edgar Allan Poe. The reader is led to learn more about the complex relationship between him and his mother and the complexity of his romantic relationships. The ambiguous, carnal and passionate relationship that unites her to Jeanne obsesses the pages just as she was able to obsess Charles Baudelaire. The emotions that animate the poet thus transpire from the author's sketches to permeate the pages and lead the reader in their continuation. The third volume of Bernard Yslaire's Cahiers Baudelaire calls us to share the passion and anger of the great poet Charles Baudelaire through a fascinating work that pays tribute to him by managing to render the darkness of the human soul most beautiful.
